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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute."

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Edward Kennedy Politician
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"Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."

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Anthony the Great Monk, Theologian
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"One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain."

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Joyce Appleby Historian
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"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
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"It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole."

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